5 dead in Arizona murder-suicide were relativesTUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A Tucson man gunned down four of his family members, including his 17-year-old niece, before fatally shooting himself in a murder-suicide, police said Wednesday. Police said Christopher Carrillo, 25, killed his relatives in the family home in a blue-collar neighborhood on the south side of Tucson. The others killed were 58-year-old Raul Carillo, 53-year-old Karen Saari, 32-year-old Erick Carrillo and 17-year-old Isela Rodr...

The Latest on Amtrak crash: Death toll increases to seven7 p.m. A Wells Fargo senior vice president is one of the seven people killed in Tuesday night's Amtrak train derailment in Philadelphia. A company spokeswoman confirmed the news Wednesday. "It is with great sadness that Wells Fargo confirms that Abid Gilani, a valued member of our Commercial Real Estate division, has passed away," she said. "Our hearts go out to all those impacted by this tragedy." According to his LinkedIn page, Gilani had be...

Schools reopen in Baltimore, streets quiet after curfew BALTIMORE (AP) — Schools reopened across the city and tensions seemed to ease Wednesday after Baltimore made it through the first night of its curfew without the widespread violence many had feared. With 3,000 police and National Guardsmen trying to keep the peace and prevent a repeat of the looting and arson that erupted on Monday, the citywide, 10 p.m.-to-5 a.m. curfew ended with no reports of disturbances in the early morning hours. Baltimo...

California woman eats 3 steak dinners in 20 minutes in Texas AMARILLO, Texas — A competitive eater has conquered three 72-ounce steak dinners in about 20 minutes during a food challenge held at a restaurant in Amarillo, Texas. Dozens of people gathered outside The Big Texan Steak Ranch on Sunday afternoon to watch Molly Schuyler eat the steaks, plus three baked potatoes, three shrimp cocktails, three salads and three rolls. Schuyler finished her first steak dinner in 4 minutes and 18 seconds, which beat...

Police say 5 adults found dead inside Phoenix home PHOENIX (AP) — Five adults were found dead inside a Phoenix home after a shooting in a suspected dispute over the family's business, police said. Police said Thursday the three men were brothers and the dead women apparently were the men's mother and a spouse of one of the brothers. Two other women and two children managed to escape the home unharmed. One of those women told officers that the shooting stemmed from a family dispute gone wrong, ...

School closed in hard-hit Illinois areaAt least one school that serves hundreds of students is closed in the tornado-damaged areas of northern Illinois. Among the hardest hit communities was Fairdale, where one woman died. Homes and other structures were severely damaged. Children from the small farming town of roughly 150 people attend a nearby school in Kirkland where classes were canceled on Friday, the day after the severe weather hit. Hiawatha School District Superintendent Sa...

Hillary Clinton to announce presidential campaign on SundayWASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton will end months of speculation about her political future and launch her long-awaited 2016 presidential campaign on Sunday, according to people familiar with her plans. The first official word that Clinton will seek the Democratic Party's nomination will come via an online video posted on social media. She'll then make stops in key early voting states, including Iowa and New Hampshire, where she'll hold...

Tsarnaev convicted in Boston Marathon bombingBOSTON (AP) — Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted on all charges Wednesday in the Boston Marathon bombing by a federal jury that now must decide whether the 21-year-old former college student should be executed. Tsarnaev folded his arms, fidgeted and looked down at the defense table as he listened to one guilty verdict after another on all 30 counts against him, including conspiracy and use of a weapon of mass destruction. Seventeen of those count...

Illinois State athletic staffers among 7 dead in plane crashBLOOMINGTON, Ill. (AP) — A private plane returning from the NCAA basketball tournament in Indianapolis crashed in a central Illinois field on Tuesday, killing all seven people on board, including Illinois State University's associate head basketball coach and a deputy athletics director. Rescue personnel found no survivors at the site near the city of Bloomington, and a coroner pronounced the seven occupants dead, McLean County Sheriff Jon San...

Ex-congressman who gave Bill Clinton first defeat dies at 92LITTLE ROCK (AP) — John Paul Hammerschmidt, the longtime Arkansas congressman who defeated Bill Clinton in the former president's first race for political office, died Wednesday. He was 92. Hammerschmidt first won election to Congress in 1966 - a milestone election year for the state's Republicans. Hammerschmidt's election, and Winthrop Rockefeller's as governor, were the first for Republicans in those seats since Reconstruction. The GOP now c...

Officials: 3 Americans killed in plane crashWASHINGTON, D.C. — Three Americans were presumed dead in the plane crash in the southern French Alps, including a U.S. government contractor and her daughter, the State Department said Wednesday. Identified victims were Yvonne Selke of Nokesville, Virginia, an employee for 23 years at Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. in Washington, and her daughter, Emily Selke, a recent graduate of Drexel University in Philadelphia. The U.S. government did not identi...

Military: Bergdahl may face life in prison if convicted FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — The Army sergeant who abandoned his post in Afghanistan and was held captive by the Taliban could face up to life in prison if convicted of both the charges he's facing, military officials said Wednesday. Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was charged with misbehavior before the enemy, which carries a maximum sentence of up to life in prison. He was also charged with desertion, which carries a maximum of five years. Bergdahl could also...

Arkansas House advances Sen. Cotton presidential billLITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas' freshman senator could seek re-election and the White House in 2020 under a proposal endorsed by the House. Lawmakers voted 62-14 Monday in favor of allowing U.S. Senate and congressional candidates to also appear on the ballot as presidential or vice presidential candidates. The bill's sponsor has said U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton helped inspire the proposal. Cotton was sworn into his first Senate term in January an...

Hot plate may have sparked fire that killed 7 NYC childrenNEW YORK (AP) — A fire apparently caused by a malfunctioning hotplate left on for the Sabbath tore through a Brooklyn home early Saturday, leaving seven children from the same Orthodox Jewish family dead and their mother and another child in critical condition, authorities said. New York Police Department officials say the children ranging in age from 5 to 16 years old were all members of the Sassoon family. Three of the children were girls: 1...

Police: Man swinging a machete shot at New Orleans airportKEENER, La. (AP) — The New Orleans airport concourse that became a scene of chaos when a machete-wielding man was shot by a sheriff's lieutenant re-opened Saturday morning and a spokeswoman said airport operations were normal. Meanwhile, the suspect in the bizarre Friday night attack at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport remained in serious condition at a hospital. Richard White, 62, of Kenner is alleged to have approached a sec...

Selma civil rights milestone marked by first black presidentSELMA, Ala. (AP) — America's racial history "still casts its long shadow upon us," President Barack Obama said Saturday as he stood in solidarity and remembrance with civil rights activists whose beatings by police a half-century ago galvanized much of the nation against racial oppression and hastened passage of historic voting rights for minorities. Tens of thousands of people joined to commemorate the "Bloody Sunday" march of 1965 and take s...

Data: Victim's cell pinged along Hernandez's alleged routeFALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) — Tracking data shown to the jury Thursday in the murder trial of former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez indicates the victim's cellphone pinged along the same route that prosecutors say Hernandez took that night. The data roughly tracks the route prosecutors say Hernandez took from Odin Lloyd's home to the industrial park in North Attleborough where Lloyd was found shot to death June 17, 2013. A T-Mobile ...

Congress OKs 1-week bill to keep Homeland Security openWASHINGTON (AP) — Bordering on dysfunction, Congress passed a one-week bill late Friday night to avert a partial shutdown of the Homeland Security Department, as leaders in both political parties quelled a revolt by House conservatives furious that the measure left President Barack Obama's immigration policy intact. The final vote of a long day and night was a bipartisan 357-60 in the House, a little more than an hour after the Senate cleared ...

Leonard Nimoy, famous as Mr. Spock on 'Star Trek,' diesLOS ANGELES (AP) — In 1975, Leonard Nimoy published an autobiography with the defiant title, "I Am Not Spock." Two decades later, he bowed to fate with "I Am Spock," a revisionist sequel. But for Trekkies and even casual "Star Trek" viewers, Nimoy was always the coolly composed science officer with the pointed ears and an unwavering belief in logic. He played a variety of other stage and screen roles, wrote poetry and pursued photography, but ...

Tiny Missouri town mourns after gunman kills 7, then himselfKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Residents of a small southern Missouri town struggled to come to grips with the knowledge that one of their own had killed seven people in a spasm of violence that ended when the gunman shot himself to death on a rural county road. Joseph Jesse Aldridge, 36, went to four homes in the unincorporated town of Tyrone in Texas County late Thursday, killing relatives and neighbors but sparing two teenagers. He was later found...